Desperate and Disgusting NRA Stooges
Rick Santorum had to walk it back, falling on the untenable defense, "I misspoke."
The alleged 'misspeak' was in telling high school kids that rather than demand new firearm restriction laws to make schools safer, they should take CPR classes instead in preparation for the next mass murder that might, or will, happen in their school. NRA stooges have sunk to some amazing lows in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting but attacking children that have already been attacked and have survived a horrific military style, sustained combat assault, in their school! needs to be loudly rejected by all of us. Their reaction and actions are as understandable as their demands are warranted. It is impossible to 'misspeak' about telling the Parkland kids that they should learn CPR instead of becoming political activists hoping to affect legislation that will make mass school shootings less likely to happen in the first place and less deadly when they do. Santorum's CPR statement is nothing more than a shamelessly heartless and desperate attempt to defend, at all costs, the official NRA position that the solution to the massive and unprecedented levels of gun deaths in America is, what else, more guns. And that anybody that dares to defy that position, even traumatized children, need to be dealt with harshly. We've all had to live with the NRA darkly rooted lies that rile up the 2nd Amendment activists with some version of, "they're coming to take away your guns." They're not. Nobody is. Not going to happen. But that's the lie the NRA needs to foment to gin up the base, get more donations and continue to pay good money for politicians. But we need to say enough is enough when the NRA and it's bootlickers feel the need to attack and insult children who have experienced the horror of watching their classmates and teachers lying dead around them, terrified that the next barrage of bullets might be meant for them. I, for one, am hoping that Rick Santorum and all the other NRA minions have finally met their match, hopefully their Waterloo, in the faces, hearts and activism of the Parkland students.
The alleged 'misspeak' was in telling high school kids that rather than demand new firearm restriction laws to make schools safer, they should take CPR classes instead in preparation for the next mass murder that might, or will, happen in their school. NRA stooges have sunk to some amazing lows in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting but attacking children that have already been attacked and have survived a horrific military style, sustained combat assault, in their school! needs to be loudly rejected by all of us. Their reaction and actions are as understandable as their demands are warranted. It is impossible to 'misspeak' about telling the Parkland kids that they should learn CPR instead of becoming political activists hoping to affect legislation that will make mass school shootings less likely to happen in the first place and less deadly when they do. Santorum's CPR statement is nothing more than a shamelessly heartless and desperate attempt to defend, at all costs, the official NRA position that the solution to the massive and unprecedented levels of gun deaths in America is, what else, more guns. And that anybody that dares to defy that position, even traumatized children, need to be dealt with harshly. We've all had to live with the NRA darkly rooted lies that rile up the 2nd Amendment activists with some version of, "they're coming to take away your guns." They're not. Nobody is. Not going to happen. But that's the lie the NRA needs to foment to gin up the base, get more donations and continue to pay good money for politicians. But we need to say enough is enough when the NRA and it's bootlickers feel the need to attack and insult children who have experienced the horror of watching their classmates and teachers lying dead around them, terrified that the next barrage of bullets might be meant for them. I, for one, am hoping that Rick Santorum and all the other NRA minions have finally met their match, hopefully their Waterloo, in the faces, hearts and activism of the Parkland students.
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